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Foreboding   /fɔrbˈoʊdɪŋ/   Listen
Foreboding

noun
1.
A feeling of evil to come.  Synonyms: boding, premonition, presentiment.  "The lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
2.
An unfavorable omen.
adjective
1.
Ominously prophetic.  Synonyms: fateful, portentous.



Forebode

verb
(past & past part. foreboded; pres. part. foreboding)
1.
Make a prediction about; tell in advance.  Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise.






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"Foreboding" Quotes from Famous Books



... that dream so bright and brief, Of joy unchequered by a dread of grief? What need to tell how all such dreams must fade, Before the slow, foreboding, dreaded shade, That floated nearer, until pomp and pride, Pleasure and wealth, were summoned to her side. To bid, at least, the noisy hours forget, And clamour down the whispers of regret. Still Angela strove to dream, and strove in vain; Awakened once, she could not sleep ...
— Legends and Lyrics: Second Series • Adelaide Anne Procter

... his hair, Queed stared long at this wreckage with a sense of foreboding and utter despondency. Doubtless Mr. Pat, who was at that moment peacefully pulling a pipe over his last galleys at the Post office, would have been astonished to learn what havoc his accursed fleas had wrought with the just ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... down to the canoe and begged hard to go with him, but the old sailor was firm in his refusal and Walter watched him paddle out of sight with a dim foreboding of evil at ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... those who would have fled to places of safety. The rush of waters caught hundreds in their homes, and as the darkness fell the scramble to escape became wild and foreboding. Those who were able to do anything sent their appeals for aid to outlying cities before the ...
— The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado • Logan Marshall

... deeply felt the desolation of the northland. In a wilderness there is nothing forbidding to me; its huge earth-bedded, living pillars supporting the enormous canopy of green, its vastness, its mystery, its calm silence, may awe yet nothing sadden. But a vague foreboding enters when man enters. Where his corn grows amid the cinders of primeval things, his wanton gashes on tree and land, his beastly pollution of the wild, crystal waters, all the restlessness, and barrenness, and ...
— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers


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